“Amongst the flowers, and the visitors, she moved, just like a bee, stripping souls, of their accustomed ecstasy” - Sidney Nolan Paradise Garden.
Heide, as much a Museum of Modern Art is a generative site, with its impacts and impressions formed by its making. It’s a place of remediation and regeneration. A place with marks left on the land by generations. A museum preserves these marks, but what marks are being laid now, that will leave impressions in the future? Rather than preserving, the past can facilitate future in use and program. Just as the Reeds did not replace the colonial cottage that became their home, now Heide 1. Nor, they stop farming upon the land when taking up ownership. Heide MoMA is not to be erased in its form, or is it to be static and unchanging. Dynamism, reinvention, and iterative generation are the only true permanent elements and forces on site. An RMIT Master of Landscape Architecture studio by Ben Kronenberg.
